Search Engines and Directories

Intersito Search Engines and Directories List

    AltaVista

• AltaVista Search Engine Features

   
• AltaVista is the oldest crawler-based search engine.
• AltaVista was conceived and launched in 1995 by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).
• AltaVista has excellent image-search capabilities.
• AltaVista has has a good news search service.
• Alta Vista searches the Web AND Usenet.
• AltaVista give good international coverage, and interfaces.
• AltaVista has a useful translation service for results.
• Alta Vista also indexes PDF files.
• Alta Vista has many powerful, unique search features.
• AltaVista was purchased by Overture in February 2003.
• Alta Vista only indexes the first 110k of web pages and the first 750k of Adobe PDF files.
• Alta Vista does not cache search pages (Adobe PDF files ARE cached).
• Alta Vista provides fast searches.
• Alta Vista recognises capitalization and proper nouns within searches.
• Altavista Advanced provides a search template for refining searches.
• AltaVista sources in excess of 18 million searches per day.
• Altavista has an estimated index of over ninety (90) million multimedia objects.
• AltaVista is powered by Yahoo! Search.
• AltaVista uses Directory Listings from DMOZ (The Open Directory Project).
• AltaVista paid links are provided by Overture.
• AltaVista had the first multi-lingual search capability.
• AltaVista's Babel Fish technology was the first to support Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages.
• The Alta Vista Search Engine
• The Alta Vista Advanced Search Engine
• Go to add an URL to the AltaVista Search Engine (FREE)

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